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KERALITE
2018

There are moments in our life that are hard, painful,
scary and di cult to endure. There are times when
we feel anger, anxiety, grief, embarrassment, stress,
remorse or other negative emotions. In these trying
Can times we often want to escape the pain, drown it
out or push it away somehow. We may begin a
mental struggle with the pain trying to mentally talk
Mindfulness our way out of it, or we distract ourselves with

activities or drown it out with food or drink or
something stronger. Every one of us has gone
Help Treat through these moments of pain and distress, the

moments when we feel our world crumbling down.
Depression? Most of us have the tendency to struggle in those
di cult moments. When the demands of our life
and society stretch us to our limits, when we feel
the shooting grief of a loss or we are overcome with
anxiety, depression or hopelessness – and we
struggle or fight against our di cult emotions, it’s
like drowning in quicksand. This state of mind had
been often termed depression.

Today depression has been termed the biggest
epidemic to have engulfed all age groups. The
number of people su ering from depression is
Sreeja Sreekumar staggering. According to the National Institute of
Mental Health, over 14 million people su er from
major depressive disorders, which are the leading
cause of disability in the United States for people
between the ages of 15 and 44. In the recent past

“Today, depression we have heard of a few celebrities like Kate Spade,
giving up their fight with this deadly epidemic by
has been termed ending their life. It is not just major depression we

the biggest are talking about; there are others who are in
numerous lives su ering under the stress of
epidemic to have moderate or minor depression. It doesn’t even

engulfed all age include people who are not clinically depressed, but
going through a bout of depression due to life’s
groups. circumstances like grief or loss.

The number of Many times when our mind is wandering in the reels
people suffering of pain or distress, we get into an autopilot mode.
Have you ever got into your car and arrived at a
from depression is place without knowing anything about the journey?
staggering.” Most of us have! And this is called the autopilot

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